HIST 3850 Study Guide - Final Guide: Larceny, Grievous Bodily Harm, Sentenced
16 Apr 2013
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Measuring homicide rates: homicides per 100,00 of population, problems, age structure also influences homicide rates, baby boomers: born between 1946-1962. Canada: only statistics from the 1920s, reach a peak in 1930 at around 2. 0 per 100,000 and then decline, steady ride from 1944-1965. Canada 1961-90: lovers, spouses, kin: 17, parents and children: 5, other family members : 17, other acquaintances: 33, rest: unsolved. Why do men kill: social and psychological explanations: focus is on the individual and sees the individual as responsible for their actions, structural explanations: focus is on society as responsible for homicide. In case of vaillancourt and enmund, prosecution had not proved intent. Issues and themes: self- defence/battered women syndrome, felony murder, police conduct- Police coercion: ronald sears in canada but also stephen truscott (1959) Limiting police actions: miranda v. arizona (1966: moral panic. The role of newspapers sears, truscott: assisted suicide, expansion of civil rights in us (criminal procedures, wrongful convictions.
